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“The Bible is divinely-inspired sacred Scripture that Almighty God has preserved and will preserve forever”.

You’re right there. But you left out it was Catholics that God was talking to and He told Catholics what He wanted in the Bible and what He wanted left out. It has always amazed me how PROSTESTants love to run the Catholic Church down and say the Catholic Church does not teach the Word of God, when it was Catholics that gave them the Bible. You can’t have it both ways. If you want to slam Catholic Church then quit reading the Bible, which is a Catholic document.

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You’re right there. But you left out it was Catholics that God was talking to and He told Catholics what He wanted in the Bible and what He wanted left out. It has always amazed me how PROSTESTants love to run the Catholic Church down and say the Catholic Church does not teach the Word of God, when it was Catholics that gave them the Bible. You can’t have it both ways. If you want to slam Catholic Church then quit reading the Bible, which is a Catholic document.

Another Roman Catholic Church myth. The catholic church is not the same thing as the Roman Catholic Church no matter how fiercely and loudly RCs insist it is. There were no "catholics" in the first few centuries seeing as the word "catholic" was used to describe the "universal" body of Christians throughout the world. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_term_Catholic:

The word catholic (with lowercase c; derived via Late Latin catholicus, from the Greek adjective καθολικός (katholikos), meaning "universal"[1][2]) comes from the Greek phrase καθόλου (katholou), meaning "on the whole", "according to the whole" or "in general", and is a combination of the Greek words κατά meaning "about" and όλος meaning "whole".

The earliest recorded evidence of the use of the term "Catholic Church" is the Letter to the Smyrnaeans that Ignatius of Antioch wrote in about 107 to Christians in Smyrna. Exhorting Christians to remain closely united with their bishop, he wrote: "Wherever the bishop shall appear, there let the multitude [of the people] also be; even as, wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church

By Catholic Church Ignatius designated the universal church. Ignatius considered that certain heretics of his time, who disavowed that Jesus was a material being who actually suffered and died, saying instead that "he only seemed to suffer" (Smyrnaeans, 2), were not really Christians.

Only when the bishop over the churches in Rome (and there were NUMEROUS churches in such a large city as Rome) deemed himself the universal bishop over all Christendom (fourth century and the influence of Constantine) was there then what still only barely resembles the Roman Catholic Church of today.

Some Catholic freepers often try to assert preeminence and exclusivity of "their" church over any other Christian assembly faith tradition and they must imagine people are fooled by it so they continue to say it. When I see it going on, I think it is important to set the record straight for those who may not know the facts. The "Catholics" did not give the world the Bible and it is not a "Catholic" document. It is the word of God and it will never fail - heaven and earth will pass away but the word of our God stands forever.

When Roman Catholicism perverts the truth of Scripture as well as any other religious entity, it should be called on it. The Reformation rightfully began with Christians wanting a return to the faith once delivered to the saints. It is the faith that has its basis in sacred Scripture as the rule of faith. It's not whatever a group of men decides is truth from one century to the next.